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Karwan Fatah-Black
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Historian of colonial empires, specifically the Dutch. Now researching proto-citizenship in the Atlantic world.
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Are you working at the intersection of the humanities/social sciences and the natural/technological sciences?
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June 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lol, I have writings on piracy that turn up in the pirated books database used by Meta to train their LLM. 🏴‍☠️ This irony of course becomes less funny when the AI starts to enslave us. Check out The Atlantic if you want to see if you've been pirated by Meta. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
April 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Today we celebrate the return of light and the defeat of tyrants. Newroz piroz be! 🔥
March 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Ons boek Ooggetuigen van de Nederlandse Slavernij: Van overtocht tot opstand' is genomineerd voor de Kleio Klasseprijs 2025. Een geweldige aanmoediging voor het gebruik van dit boek over historisch brongebruik en slavernij in de klas. https://www.vgnkleio.nl/actueel/stem-voor-de-kleio-klasseprijs/
February 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Yesterday we had a great launch of the edited volume 'The Dutch Slave Trade: New Methods, Perspectives and Sources'. Authors gave very insightful presentations of findings and reflections of the main theme. Great work! https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048560493/the-dutch-transatlantic-slave-trade
February 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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There's a full house this afternoon at the @schpvrtmsm.bsky.social for the book launch of 'The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade' -- thank you to everyone celebrating this fascinating and important volume!
February 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
DeepSeek3 aan het downloaden. Kan 'm zo in Ollama draaien. De tekstverwerkingstoepassingen van modellen zijn duidelijk. Toepassing in 't primaire onderzoeksproces van mijn veld zie ik nog niet. Gebrek aan precisie blijft een struikelblok. Nut van "Old school" statistische text mining is duidelijker.
January 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Funny, didn't know how easily you could run so much of that genAI stuff freely on a simple laptop/home setup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjrd...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Comparisons between paper and digitised wills (central to this week's MoJ statement) are also the subject of a recent 'Transactions of the RHS' article.

'Material and Digital Archives: the Case of Wills' considers how format informs use and interpretation, for pre-1858 documents bit.ly/3DMb6W7
January 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙

In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In*

I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
January 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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De officiële presentatie van ons boek zal plaatsvinden in Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam! In samenwerking met hun indrukwekkende nieuwe tentoonstelling Schaduwen op de Atlantische Oceaan zullen vijf presentaties een link leggen tussen historisch onderzoek en erfgoed.
Meld je hier nú aan:
Boekpresentatie | Het Scheepvaartmuseum
7 februari vindt in Het Scheepvaartmuseum de presentatie van het boek The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade: New Methods, Perspectives, and Sources plaats.
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl
January 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
January 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Le Pen verloor zijn hitlerjügend dolk tijdens het martelen in Algerije.

De koloniale wortels van Europees rechtsextremisme.

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« Le Pen et la torture. Alger 1957, l’histoire contre l’oubli » : l’implacable dossier
Enquêtes journalistiques, archives militaires, témoignages… L’historien Fabrice Riceputi réunit pour la première fois l’ensemble des documents attestant des exactions de l’ancien président du Front na...
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January 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On Austrian radio ORF I shared my thoughts on the Dutch royal apologies for slavery, their international reception and the position of other royal families.

orf.at/stories/3379...
Kolonialgeschichte: Europäische Monarchien unter Druck
Europas Monarchien geraten zunehmend unter Druck, Verantwortung für ihre koloniale Vergangenheit zu übernehmen. Zuletzt kam König Charles III. als Staatsoberhaupt des Vereinigten Königreichs wieder in...
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December 28, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Good news today that the Daesh member Hasna A. has been convicted by a Dutch court for practicing slavery in Syria. #slavery
The signs of a resurgence of the enslavement of women in the frontlines of the jihadist groups in North-Eastern Syria is worrying.
nos.nl/artikel/2547...
Hasna A. veroordeeld tot tien jaar cel voor jezidi-slavernij in Syrië
De celstraf is hoger dan de acht jaar die was geëist.
nos.nl
December 11, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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Wow! The Dutch always leading in digitization.
Vanmiddag lanceren we Goetgevonden. Daarmee kan je digitaal zoeken in alle besluiten vd Staten-Generaal vd Republiek (1576-1796). Het is wereldwijd de krachtigste zoekmachine voor historische teksten ooit gemaakt. Je vindt ons via goetgevonden.nl! @jorisoddens.bsky.social @knaw-nl.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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The first copy just arrived at @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Can’t wait to have the book in my hands as well! I’m very happy with the cover with the wonderful artwork by Natasja Kensmil 👇🏼
Visuals matter. Paying living artists for their work matters. For the cover of the first book in the Slavery and Emancipation series (January 2025), we got permission to use a work by Dutch artist of Surinamese heritage, Natasja Kensmil, called “White Elephant”, oil on canvas, 200x230 cm, 2019.
December 2, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Visuals matter. Paying living artists for their work matters. For the cover of the first book in the Slavery and Emancipation series (January 2025), we got permission to use a work by Dutch artist of Surinamese heritage, Natasja Kensmil, called “White Elephant”, oil on canvas, 200x230 cm, 2019.
December 2, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Ik geloof dat ik zojuist een ijsvogel langs de hortus zag vliegen. Vlak langs de struiken, laag boven het water. Zitten die hier? Midden in de stad? #Leiden #Hortus #HertaMohr
November 29, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Coming on January 6 in our Slavery and Emancipation book series: an in-depth study based on a recently opened archive, tracing the journey of a single ship, with wide-ranging reverberations for the ways we narrate the experiences of enslaved people.
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social
The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
In this book, a new generation of scholars offers fresh perspectives on the history of the Dutch slave trade. Traditionally, Dutch research has focused on business practices, often overlooking the ens...
www.aup.nl
November 21, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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New starter pack: History of Slavery in the Dutch World. Please let me know if you want to be part of this or if you want to be removed. #slavery #history #dutch #netherlands
November 25, 2024 at 12:34 PM
_Ooggetuigen van de Nederlandse slavernij: Van overtocht tot opstand_ is gerecenseerd op de pagina van Jonge Historici. Een bemoedigend stuk dat meedenkt over de manier hoe we deze geschiedenis moeten onderzoeken en schrijven. www.jhsg.nl/recensie-oog...
November 20, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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Together with @fatahblack.bsky.social we launched a new book series on slavery and its aftermath: Slavery and Emancipation.

The first book will be published in January 2025, with many more in the pipeline. Reach out if you’re interested in submitting a proposal!

@amsterdamupress.bsky.social
Slavery and Emancipation
This series contributes to breaking the mold of slavery studies by offering a platform for a wide range of historiographical approaches springing from a critical re-examination of primary sources.
www.aup.nl
November 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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New special issue out - Repentance and Reappraisal: Historicising the Defenders of Slavery in the Netherlands

Guest-edited by Karwan Fatah-Black and 🙋🏼

Contributions by: Esther Baakman, Dirk Alkemade, @fatahblack.bsky.social, Philip Post, and Matthew Smith @cslbs.bsky.social

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BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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October 1, 2024 at 5:38 AM